Professor Michael Neidig grew up on the dairy farms of central Pennsylvania before receiving his B.A. in chemistry from Colgate University. He then pursued his M.Phil degree in chemistry from the University of Cambridge working on asymmetric porphyrins. He completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University working with Prof. Edward Solomon. Following brief stops at Dow Chemical as a Senior Research Chemist and Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Prof. Neidig joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Rochester in 2011 as an assistant professor. His research at Rochester focuses on the generation of new fundamental insight into structure, bonding and mechanism in homogeneous non-precious metal catalysis including (1) iron-catalyzed cross-coupling and (2) iron- and cobalt-catalyzed direct C-H functionalization. Further research interests include elucidation of electronic structure, bonding and mechanism in f-element chemistry. Prof. Neidig is now a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford.

For more information about Prof. Neidig and his group: https://www.sas.rochester.edu/chm/groups/neidig/index.html (will soon be an Oxford URL)

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